Arizona HM 2003: defund BIS; interim final rule

Bill Text

HM2003 - 572R - I Ver 

PREFILED��� NOV 17 2025

 REFERENCE TITLE: defund BIS; interim final rule

 State of Arizona

 House of Representatives

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 HM 2003

 Introduced by 

 Representative 
 Powell

A MEMORIAL

Urging the president and the Congress of 
the United States to prohibit the use of funds to implement the affiliates 
rule.

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To the President and the Congress of the United States of 
America:

Your memorialist respectfully represents:

Whereas, the purpose of the Bureau of Industry and Security 
(BIS) in the United States Department of Commerce is to advance national 
security through technology leadership and vigilant export controls; and 

Whereas, this country was founded on the principles of limited 
government intervention in the free market; and

Whereas, burdensome regulations, crippling taxes and rising 
inflation caused by BIS policies have forced American businesses and industries 
to make hard decisions; and

Whereas, decisions by the BIS to subsidize certain industries 
over others have completely ignored the basic principles of the free market 
that have allowed the United States to thrive and have left control over 
industrial policy in the hands of unelected bureaucrats; and 

Whereas, on September 30, 2025, the BIS issued the Affiliates 
Rule as an interim final rule that extended export control restrictions to any 
entity owned 50% or more by one or more parties listed on either the BIS Entity 
List or the Military End-User List; and 

Whereas, this Affiliates Rule adds another layer of bureaucracy 
and control by big government in the market, making it harder for American 
industries to conduct business freely; and 

Whereas, on November 1, 2025, President Donald Trump announced 
that he will suspend the Affiliates Rule for a year as a concession reached 
during recent trade negotiations between the United States and the People's 
Republic of China; and 

Whereas, it is crucial that American exporters and industries 
be protected from government overreach and burdensome regulations.

Wherefore your 
memorialist, the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, prays:

1. That the President and Congress of the United 
States:

(a) Indefinitely suspend the implementation of the 
Bureau of Industry and Security's Affiliates Rule.

(b) Defund the BIS and repeal burdensome regulations 
on the free market to protect American businesses, exporters and industries.

2. That the Secretary of State of the State of 
Arizona transmit copies of this Memorial to the President of the United States, 
the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States 
House of Representatives and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.